Planning law changes condemned at Bradford Council meeting

8:00am Wednesday 17th October 2012 in News

The Government-proposed relaxation of planning laws will undermine democratic accountability, marginalise the views of communities and allow developers to ignore the urgent need for more affordable housing, councillors agreed.

Members at a meeting of the full Council last night discussed motions brought by Councillor Adrian Naylor, leader of the Council’s Independents group, and Councillor Geoff Reid, of the Liberal Democrat group, which questioned the proposals. The motion said the proposals would waive requirements for affordable housing, relax the need for planning permission for home extensions and allow developers to bypass local authorities.

Members voted to carry Coun Naylor’s motion and resolved to oppose the Government’s proposals to extend development rights and remove affordable housing requirements.

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johnhem says...
10:33am Wed 17 Oct 12

give developers a free rein to build houses, as long as ALL brown sites are used up first. the number of brown sites in bradford should keep builders in work for years... how about the wastefield site in town for starters, there's nothing going on there.

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Mike Strutter says...
6:25am Thu 18 Oct 12

Hold on here, the council have just passed the allerton development and let the developer get away with providing no affordable houses when the council asked for 15 % and this had nothing to do with government policy.
Double standards or what

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